Andrea Jenkins

Andrea Jenkins is Senior Policy Aide for Minneapolis City Council Member Elizabeth Glidden.

Andrea earned her Masters of Science, Community Economic Development –Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, New Hampshire, a Certificate, University of St. Thomas, Community Leadership Institute, and Bachelors of Science, Human Services / Interpersonal Communications – Metropolitan State University and is currently pursuing a MFA in Creative Writing at Hamline University.

As a Poet and writer, her work has appeared in several local publications including The Minneapolis Spokesman and Recorder, The City of Minneapolis Website, The Minneapolis Observer and many others. She has performed with The Outward Spiral, Mama Mosiac and many others. Andrea has self-published a chapbook of poems called “tributaries: poems celebrating black history.” She currently is co-curator of the S.A.S.E, Carol Connolly GLBT Reading Series at Intermedia Arts.